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10,000 meters, Olympics
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:56 am
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:56 am
Why does the Western Hemisphere suck at it compared to other track and field events?
Winners:
Finland - 7 times
Ethiopia - 5 times
Czech - 2 times
Great Britain - 2 times
Morrocco - 2 times
Russia - 2 times
Billy Mills - USA
Is the only person in the Western Hemisphere to ever win the event in the Olympics.
Winners:
Finland - 7 times
Ethiopia - 5 times
Czech - 2 times
Great Britain - 2 times
Morrocco - 2 times
Russia - 2 times
Billy Mills - USA
Is the only person in the Western Hemisphere to ever win the event in the Olympics.
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Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:57 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
10,000 meters
Metric system
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:31 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
In the US:
Posted on 5/3/17 at 6:57 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
In the western hemisphere, most 10ks are run on road courses as opposed to the Olympics (and I am thinking eastern hemisphere) run it on the track.
Strategies are different when you factor in the terrain and how you go about attacking and defending the lead.
Also, western hemisphere distance runners may focus more on marathon distances.
Strategies are different when you factor in the terrain and how you go about attacking and defending the lead.
Also, western hemisphere distance runners may focus more on marathon distances.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 7:07 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Training, for one. Blacks also have a slight genetic advantage.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 7:15 am to LSUtoOmaha
quote:HMMMM
Blacks also have a slight genetic advantage.
quote:
Finland - 7 times
Czech - 2 times
Russia - 2 times
Posted on 5/3/17 at 7:20 am to buckeye_vol
You took that bait and swallowed the hook
Posted on 5/3/17 at 7:29 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
For real though, it is training and volume of runners. Track and Field is huge in a lot of those countries.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 9:41 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
AAU
Posted on 5/3/17 at 9:48 am to LSUtoOmaha
quote:
training and volume of runners. Track and Field is huge in a lot of those countries.
This
T&F has been slowly dying in this country for years
Posted on 5/3/17 at 11:48 am to tigerfootball10
quote:
T&F has been slowly dying in this country for years
And yet US distance runners are in a renaissance.
quote:
In fact, the distance athletes earned two more medals in Rio than they did in the previous four Olympics combined and saw many others place well in the finals—all three Americans in the women’s marathon were in the top ten, for example. This year, Matthew Centrowitz (1500 meters) won gold, Evan Jager (3,000-meter steeplechase) and Paul Chelimo (5,000 meters) won silver; and Rupp, Emma Coburn (steeplechase), Clayton Murphy (800 meters), and Jenny Simpson (1500 meters) brought home bronze.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 12:06 pm to tigerfootball10
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T&F has been slowly dying in this country for years
Yeah, but the USA has 801 T&F medals, 32%. That's more than swimming and most other summer events combined.
And it took the USA 52 years to win it's first and only 10,000M.
And it's not ancestry or location.
This is a country of immigrants...and South America and Brazil is about as diverse and huge as you can get with immigrants from all over northern Europe, more former African slaves than America and the Caribbean combined, European ancestry, African, etc.
It doesn't make any sense for Finland and Europe as a whole and then Africa to dominate while the Western Hemisphere needed the lone native born north american to win it.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:01 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Galen rupp should have beet mo Farrah in 2012. Nobody can tell me otherwise.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:28 pm to PJinAtl
quote:
In the western hemisphere, most 10ks are run on road courses as opposed to the Olympics (and I am thinking eastern hemisphere) run it on the track.
I always ran much faster on grass or roads than on a track.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:29 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The lack of success by Kenyans is more surprising
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:31 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Whenever you take into account spikes/the type of competition it's extremely rare you see a faster road pr than track pr
Posted on 5/3/17 at 1:36 pm to usc6158
quote:
The lack of success by Kenyans is more surprising
Kenya didn't really start seeing international success at 5k/10k until the 80s. They boycotted one year, then the past 6 olympiads ran into the buzzsaw of 3 of the greatest distance runners of all time.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 2:07 pm to buckeye_vol
Finns are so into olympics.
They caught caught for cheating a couple of times.
If the usa cared about 10000 we would have more native americans in 10000. Money talks.
They caught caught for cheating a couple of times.
If the usa cared about 10000 we would have more native americans in 10000. Money talks.
This post was edited on 5/3/17 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 5/3/17 at 4:03 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It's because the countries you mentioned put way more emphasis on distance running. It was the Fins in the mid 20th century and the East Africans now, but those distance running powers train for the Olympics from the time they are kids. There's something to be said for having a culture loaded with young talented middle distance runners.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 7:13 pm to Beer Can Stan
I want to use this thread just to mention the 10k world record is 26:17. That is 4:12 mile pace 
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